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Updated 2025-07-06 13:16
Britain’s first ‘Brexit’: 286 A.D. It didn't last long.
If Britain does move to quit a united Europe, it won't be the first time. That dubious honor goes to the Roman province of Britannia in 286 A.D., which broke away from Roman control and set up its own empire, which lasted a decade.
Why Cleveland's NBA championship is so amazing, for Italians
An Italian sports reporter reflects on the Cavaliers' big basketball win: “You feel you belong to that team and that team belongs to you, that feeling is something I’m finding here in Cleveland.”
Young Puerto Ricans bucking the flow: Heading home to rebuild their island
Puerto Rico is experiencing a brain drain — more than 10,000 Puerto Ricans are emigrating each month, among them doctors, engineers, and other professionals. A small crop are heading in the opposite direction.
What now after North Korea's most successful ballistics missile launch?
Don't panic: North Korea still has to go through “various technical stages” in order to have a missile that could reach Japan or US islands in the Pacific.
What will happen on the Irish border if Britain votes to leave the EU?
One of the big unresolved questions around the referendum is what would happen in Northern Ireland in the event of a Brexit. A new frontier would be created between the EU and the UK, but what would this actually mean?
Two patients rescued from South Pole in dramatic winter evacuation
The medical evacuation was only the third ever staged at the South Pole during the southern hemisphere's winter.
If US soccer's Jürgen Klinsmann were an NBA coach, he'd be fired by now
The head coach of the US Men's National Soccer team will keep his job. And it's because the expectations for his team are low.
In Germany, mass deportation is a touchy subject
Mass deportation is a painful issue in Germany given its Nazi past. The last time the country rounded up masses of people was during the Holocaust.
Should the UK leave Europe? There's a curry angle.
Backers of the UK's "Brexit" are hoping to drum up support by using its national dish. It's all about the number of curry chefs and EU rules.
It's this nation's most popular song. It also may be haunted.
The song "Gloomy Sunday" was written in 1933, in Hungary, and has been recorded by artists from Billie Holiday to Björk. Because of its subject matter, some artists have refused to record it. But a record label in Berlin asked musicians to record their versions — and the results are anything but gloomy.
Brits who live in other EU countries face uncertainty as the Brexit vote looms
All of Britain is on edge waiting to see what happens in the EU referendum on Thursday. Could "Brexit" really happen? And if so, what does it mean for an estimated 1.2 million British citizens currently living in other European countries?
Holland is relocating homes to make more room for high water
The Dutch have spent centuries trying to hold back both the sea and the big rivers that flow into it. But rising water due to climate change is forcing a new approach for their low-lying country.
Unraveling the mysteries of radiation
The relative safety of most of the gadgets and machines around us doesn’t stop us from getting nervous when we hear the word “radiation.”
Are US cities prepared for a post-Hurricane Sandy future?
Hurricane Sandy devastated lower Manhattan. But rebuilding New York’s waterfront has been complicated. If you were in Europe, the buildings on the lower Manhattan coastline might not have been rebuilt. That’s because European cities vulnerable to flooding have learned to live with it, putting parks next to coastlines that sometimes overflow.
Here's why I own an AR-15
It's partly nostalgia for the type of weapon that safeguarded him in Vietnam, says Luis Quiñonez, a 64-year-old former Marine. Still, the NRA member is not a fan of some of the issues advocated by the NRA.
At a London school, students share their experiences of immigration
This week, people in the UK will decide whether they want to stay in the European Union or leave. One hot topic within that discussion is immigration. I went to my old school in London to find out what it's like to be an immigrant or a child of immigrants there in 2016.
Did you catch that bee’s license number? Unusual research project begins in London.
Hundreds of bees with "license plates" were released by a London university today. Scientists are hoping that the tags will encourage the public to engage more with the insects.
LA news anchor: It's time for Mexico soccer fans to stop chanting a homophobic slur
León Krauze is a Mexican journalist and a Univision news anchor who has asked Mexican soccer fans to stop their homophobic chanting.
Writer Jack Qu'emi explains the meaning of 'Latinx'
"In Spanish, the masculinized version of words is considered as gender-neutral. I don't think its appropriate to assign masculinity as neutral when it isn't."
Raids and rehabilitation: Kenya’s dual fight against Islamic extremism
Increasingly, the Kenyan government has been taking steps to root out terrorists on its own soil, but the crackdown has been marked by disappearances and extrajudicial killings, which has only inflamed the simmering resentments of young men in the coastal city of Mombasa.
A Syrian family in New Jersey create art and music that they couldn't back home
President Obama is falling short on his pledge to accept 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of September. But some Syrians have already been granted visas and are living here, not as refugees, but as visiting professors.
In desperate Venezuela, thieves target school cafeterias for food
There seems to be no end to the indignities in rapidly failing Venezuela. It's the start of the Western Hemisphere's own humanitarian crisis, says an AP correspondent in Caracas.
Will the murder of an idealistic, young British MP swing the EU membership vote?
If voters choose to depart from the EU, Britain will take a "leap into the unknown."
Partying in Lebanon means shooting guns in the air — even though it kills people
It’s illegal. It’s also deadly. But at graduations, birthdays, weddings, funerals — even when a politician just speaks on TV — firing guns into the air is a favorite way to celebrate.
A Syrian trumpet player in Berlin has a new project called 'Exilistan'
Milad Khawam, a Syrian refugee in Berlin, describes his music as a "schizophrenia of feelings." It's the mix of emotions, he says, of someone who has left everything behind and is starting over.
After emperors and popes, Rome opts for first woman mayor
After two and a half millennia of being ruled by men, Rome was Monday under new management.
As sea levels rise, Rotterdam floats to the top as an example of how to live with water
When it comes to preparing for sea-level rise in coastal cities, the Dutch have a big head start on the rest of the world. And their best array of tools may be on display in and around the port city of Rotterdam.
'From one hell to another': Humanitarian disaster looms as thousands escape Fallujah
As Iraqi forces drive ISIS out of Fallujah, thousands of civilians have finally been able to escape. But the camps they are arriving at, in 120-degree heat, are "nightmarish." Some people are even dying in them.
A children's book introduces German kids to the true story of Syrian refugees
Germany has received more than 1 million refugees, many of them children from Syria. In “Everything Will Be Alright,” Kirsten Boie writes the story of one Syrian family that fled bombings in Homs for safety near Hamburg, Germany.
US Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on a year of gun violence
Juan Felipe Herrera's poem on America, post-Charleston and post-Orlando. "We shall not forget U Orlando," he writes.
Istanbul riot police break up LGBT rally
Istanbul authorities said on Friday they had banned the annual gay pride parade set for June 26 to "safeguard security and public order" after a string of bombings around Turkey over the past year, some of them blamed on the Islamic State group, others claimed by Kurdish militants.
Try these backyard science projects with your kids this summer
Learn how to make solar ovens, water rockets, and other DIY summer science projects
Beyond Paris: How New York Fashion Week created American style
New York fashion week started during one of the world's darkest hours.
Inside the minds of zoo animals
“The reason we don't understand [animals] better is because we're not smart enough.”
Climate change is a huge threat to our national parks
Why national parks are especially important in light of climate change.
A new way to clean the environment?
These field microbiologists have discovered a species of life form that consumes iron.
Mexico's justice system gets an extreme makeover
A study says 98 percent of crimes in Mexico go unsolved. The nation is changing its justice system to try to change that.
The incredible journey of one 3-year-old mountain lion
This mountain lion trekked over 2,000 miles from South Dakota to just outside New York City. An author, using DNA and witness accounts, meticulously tracked its improbable journey.
Learn Arabic in just 25 years
American travel and food writer Zora O'Neill studied Arabic for seven years when she was younger. In 2011, post-Arab Spring, she traveled the Arab world to learn how the language is spoken by people as different from one another as Moroccans and Emiratis. Her new book, "All Strangers are Kin," is a travel memoir held together by her passion for the language.
A veteran responds to Trump’s comments on troops embezzling cash in Iraq
Trump's spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, has said Trump was referring to Iraqi soldiers, not US soldiers. But US veterans are not happy.
How can the Olympics help rid sports of its drug addiction?
Russian athletes cannot compete in track and field events in Rio this summer. But when you look closely at the ban, it really shows the agency tasked with keeping the Olympics clean isn't doing its job.
An Indian court will decide whether a palm is, in fact, a tree
When is a tree not a tree? When it’s a coconut palm in the Indian state of Goa.
‘P.S. Jerusalem,’ a love story about a family looking for a home in a troubled city
Danae Elon’s famous Israeli father didn’t want her to move back to the Jewish State. But she did it anyway, with her own family. Elon’s documentary is a deeply personal story about home and heartbreak in Jerusalem.
The wild English roots of the song you'll hear at every US graduation
Pomp? Circumstance? It's actually a fiercely patriotic British song.
Congress shows signs of movement on limited gun restrictions
Proposals in the US House and Senate would enable the government to prohibit people on terrorist watch-lists from buying guns — and they'd also allow for universal background checks.
What can the US learn from Norway's gun laws?
Since the Utoya massacre almost five years ago, there have been no mass shootings in Norway.
How this Yemeni American keeps up the family business thousands of miles from home
Khaled Almaghafi is a bee master in the San Francisco Bay Area. It's spiritual work, too. "You see how they dance, how they collect the honey, how they work ... you feel deep inside there is a creator," he says.
Disneyland has arrived in China and the government is ‘calling the shots’
It's more than fun and games. President Barack Obama said the park “captures the promise” of the bilateral relationship between the US and China.
Coming out twice: Once as undocumented, and then as gay
Dago Bailón was born in Mexico and crossed the border to the US when he was a kid. He lived in the US illegally for years until a law passed by President Obama allowed him to stay. After that, he had to go through another form of coming out: coming out of the closet.
Bhutan carried out a nationwide program to spay and neuter its stray dogs
Bhutan had a serious street dog problem that was turning off high-end tourists and spreading rabies. So the Buddhist kingdom did something no other country in the world has done: carried out a nationwide spay/neuter and vaccine program.
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